Over the past generation — ever since the banking deregulation of the Reagan years — the U. S. economy has been "financialized."

过去一个世代，也就是自雷根时期放宽金融管制以来，美国经济已被「金融化」了。

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It was the combination of banking deregulation and the G7-sanctioned surge in the yen that ushered in the final manic stage of the Japanese bubble.

银行监管放松加上受到G7支持的日元急剧升值，拉开了日本泡沫最后疯狂的大幕。

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Although one must be tentative in evaluating current events, I suspect that the deregulation (though again partial) of banking has been a factor in the current credit crisis.

虽然对于评价当前的事物我们必须谨慎，但是我仍然对认为银行业的放松管制(虽然是局部的)是最近的信用危机的一个原因的看法持怀疑态度。

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Mr Balls, said the current Chancellor, George Osborne, had been a keen advocate of further banking deregulation when the Conservatives were in opposition.

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Many would argue that Gordon Brown's "light-touch regulation" and general deregulation of banking, in the UK and around the world, did more to "unleash" the City than anything Margaret Thatcher did, and more to pave the way to the financial crisis.

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Explanations run from some explosion of greed in the banking classes through massive deregulation of finance to increasing inequality and even, in some of the more bizarre diagnoses, an insistence that this is just late stage capitalism and the communist nirvana is soon to be at hand.

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